Heritage Places

Information on places listed on the Tasmanian Heritage Register are available at https://www.thelist.tas.gov.au/ and can be exported using the ‘Export’ feature under ‘Tools’.

The exported data is emailed, and the files can then be unzipped into the QGIS project folder, and added to a layer of the map. The file added in this case was HeritageRegister.shp.

By filtering the attribute table to records with a location of Kempton, adding labels with a call out, and moving the labels for better readability, the image shown in Figure 1 was created and exported as a Print Layer. A clickable version of this map was also created and exported using the QGIS2WEB plugin.1

Places in Kempton listed on the Tasmanian Heritage Register

Georeferencing a Map

A QGIS tutorial on georeferencing was used to overlay a town chart from the Tasmanian State Library showing land grants in Green Ponds / Kempton.2

Through a series of trial and error attempts to match the chart to the QGIS OpenStreetMap base map, the following settings gave the best results:

Once the Georeferencing was complete, the transparency of the overlay was set to 30% to allow both the overlay and the underlying base map to be visible. The resulting Print Layout image is shown in Figure 2.

Printed Town Chart overlay

“Georeferencing Topo Sheets and Scanned Maps QGIS Tutorials and Tips.” n.d. https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/georeferencing_basics.html.
“Libraries Tasmania - Af819-1-149.” n.d. https://stors.tas.gov.au/AF819-1-149.
“Web Mapping with QGIS2Web (Qgis3) QGIS Tutorials and Tips.” n.d. https://www.qgistutorials.com/en/docs/3/web_mapping_with_qgis2web.html.

  1. (“Web Mapping with QGIS2Web (Qgis3) QGIS Tutorials and Tips,” n.d.)↩︎

  2. [“Georeferencing Topo Sheets and Scanned Maps QGIS Tutorials and Tips” (n.d.)](“Libraries Tasmania - Af819-1-149,” n.d.)↩︎